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The Government Inspector, also known as The Inspector General (Russian: Ревизор, romanized: Revizor, literally: "Inspector"), is a satirical play by Russian dramatist and novelist, Nikolai Gogol. [1] Originally published in 1836, the play was revised for an 1842 edition. Based upon an anecdote allegedly recounted to Gogol by Pushkin, [2 ...
- Nikolai Gogol, Stephen Mulrine
- 1836
Feb 14, 2010 · What wonder that the Inspector-General became a sort of comedy-epic in the land of the Czars, the land where each petty town-governor is almost an absolute despot, regulating his persecutions and extortions according to the sage saying of the town-governor in the play, "That's the way God made the world, and the Voltairean free-thinkers can ...
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The Government Inspector, farcical drama in five acts by Nikolay Gogol, originally performed and published as Revizor in 1836. The play, sometimes translated as The Inspector General, mercilessly lampoons the corrupt officials of an obscure provincial town that is portrayed as a microcosm of the Russian state.
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The Government Inspector is a satirical stage play by Russian-Ukrainian author Nikolai Gogol, originally published in 1836 and later revised in 1842. Also known as The Inspector General, the play is a comedy of errors based on a supposed anecdote relayed to Gogol by the Russian poet Alexander Pushkin. In a small unnamed Russian town, a young ...
The Government Inspector Summary. The Mayor of a Russian town gathers his officials and tells them he has received a letter from a friend saying that a government inspector is traveling from province to province, and he is doing so incognito. The Judge, the Inspector of Schools, the Doctor, the Warden of Charities, and the Postmaster are all ...
The Government Inspector is a work of enormous scale, at one extreme an entertaining comedy of errors and, at the other, an illuminating drama of corruption. No single interpretation encompasses all its meaning. . . . It is a play of great originality, that contains the inexhaustible riches of all great art.
